Minerals Needed
15 minerals are required in the daily diet, six of them in large quantities and nine are called micronutrients and trace minerals are.
Mineral Commodities
* Calcium (Ca)
* Phosphorus (P)
* Magnesium (Mg)
* Sodium (Na)
* Potassium (K)
* Chloride (Cl)
Evidence or trace minerals or micronutrients:
* Iron (Fe)
* Zinc (Zn)
* Iodine (Y)
* Copper (Cu)
* Manganese (Mn)
* Fluorine (F)
* Chromium (Cr)
* Selenium (Se)
* Molybdenum (Mo)
* Sulfur and cobalt, are also essential, but there are recommended amounts.
Action, deficiency, excess. Where to find them?
LITHIUM
Lithium is a metal of the alkali family, widely distributed in nature. Lithium in the human body is at serum concentrations of 10 to 40 mcg / l. No one knows the function of lithium in the human body, unlike the function of his band mates, sodium and potassium.
NEEDS
In principle, lithium did not miss anyone. The tiny amounts of lithium that can be measured in human plasma have no known function. But lithium supplementation is already history, both in Greece and Rome, used in alkaline mineral water baths for various ailments, both physical and mental.
Lithium was used as a remedy for different diseases, so that settled pharmacological agent for bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, whose victims alternate extreme states of euphoria (or mania) and depression that lead them to heaven and literally hell, the glow in the darkness, a celebration without limitation, to a sloughing intolerable.
PHYSIOLOGY
* Lithium has action on the nervous system.
* Acts on the rates of catecholamine, acetylcholine, gamma amino butyric acid, glutamic acid.
* Serves on various enzymatic mechanisms and the ATPase system. Appears to act on the permeability of cell membranes.
* Interferes in the electrolyte balance inside and outside the cell.
* You can modify the Ca2 + concentrations of calcium and magnesium Mg2 +.
* You can move actively to sodium outside the cell (no action on the K +).
* It seems antagonist potassium in heart disease. It is known that these increases in blood potassium.
* In atherosclerotic heart disease seems to be inversely proportional to the concentration of lithium in the water.
* It is a medication catalytic function disorders elimination (urea and drop), and that was formerly used in the form of carbonates, benzoates and silicates.
* The action of lithium has been studied for the neurotransmitters, catecholamine on rates of acetylcholine, gamma amino butyric acid and glutamic acid, as well as on various enzymatic mechanisms (lithium appears to act on the ATPase system.)
* The elimination of lithium in urine increases in manic patients. In the manic-depressive psychosis, the rate of intracellular LITHIUM (in erythrocytes) is impaired.
Observable trace element and the indicated doses (2-6 ampoules Lithium gluconate) no side effects like allopathic doses.